Recent content by harborsparrow

I hope you will post here about what kind of thing you end up trying, and how it worked out. I too have a couple rooms that need more natural light, but because I've got neighbors living upstairs, it's impossible to install any kind of sun tunnel.

The 2.4 GHz band is used by all the smart home devices in the world (the so-called Internet of Things), so the congestion may be on the ISP end even if you don't even have a smart thermostat in your house.

On Windows, I always try to use an account which is an Administrator. Not having Admin access means you probably cannot install a new printer or new software. Most people I know would like the ability to add peripherals such as a scanner or printer to their computer; thus, most users should be...

The same thing happened to me once. I ended up having to wipe the disk and reinstall the OS from scratch. It was Microsoft and Bitlocker. I don't think I ever consented to encrypt the drive but, apparently, it happened anyway. Thankfully, it only happened once and it was several years ago...

Has the wifi router hardware changed? I had the latest Verizon FIOS router, and certain bands of wifi (2.4 GHz, that is used by most smarthome devices) intermittently stopped working unless I rebooted the router. After trying to deal with Verizon, I finally turned the wifi off in Verizon's...

I think there ought to be a setting in Thunderbird whereby deleting a message locally also deletes it off the server. That should fix it.

The Content-Length header is mandatory for messages with entity bodies, unless the message is transported using chunked encoding. Some info on chunked encoding is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding

"Algorithms" might be too big a topic these days. Sorting? Bucket hashing? Machine learning? Database theory? Large language models? These are very, very different kinds of domains of knowledge, and I doubt one will find it all in any one book. Back in 1962, Donald Knuth wrote his...

Lol at the Google Bard performance joke. That said, as someone who worked in industry writing software for decades and also taught programmers in college for ten years, it is usually a mistake to ignore possible future performance constraints, because if you don't design for them out front...

I opposed nuclear power for decades but have recently begun to hope countries would consider using some of the newer, smaller nuclear reactor designs that were designed from the ground up with more attention to safety, transport and disposal. However, so far, most increases in nuclear power...

Of course, Python or any language is fine for a tutorial, and it might "work perfectly well". And if the AI LLM you want to build is for use by only a few people simultaneously and you don't need to worry about performance, fine. But if it's for something like Google Bard that has a gazillion...

Sadly, it seems to take a lot of money/time/resources to seek ECMA standardization for a language, and it takes money to set up an organization to certify compliance with the standard once it is in place. Microsoft had that money and resolve, both for C# and its underlying VM. But many other...

I have not been active in this field (or as a programmer recently), so your experience exceeds mine in the particulars. C# is probably good enough in every technical aspect, but its performance has been optimized particularly for Windows platforms, and that might rule it out. Java is not...

Ha ha Borg. Good point, I replaced the word "knucklehead" with "programmer" (he he). Not saying Python isn't a respectable language for most purposes. However, I think every major language platform can now interface with GPU's; there are some good discussions about how to do it with C# in...

I don't doubt some programmers are using Python for AI programming, but keep a couple of factors in mind (one mentioned above already): * Python is probably not the highest performing language, and AI models are going to be serious CPU hogs. * Python is not formally standardized by an external...